Guilderland
Historical
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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Schoolhouse #6
Schoolhouse #6 viewed from the southwest (August
2025).
Photos of Schoolhouse #6 in the 1982 NRHP nomination document (2, 3
marked July 1980)
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1. Schoolhouse #6 viewed from
south
2. western elevation
3. original school privy on north side
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
Schoolhouse #6 entered on the NRHP 10 November 1982
Application file # 10; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 20.
Integral part of Main Street with St. Mark's on the west and
residences on the east.
Features: This unusual one-room schoolhouse is constructed of
coursed cobblestone with smooth ashlar quoins; 6/6 windows with
stone lintels and sills; open bell tower at southern end with
curvilinear hipped roof.
Date of initial construction: 1860; builder (stonemason) R.L.
Zeh
Historical and Architectural importance: One of only several
cobble stone buildings in the county, Schoolhouse #6 has been
carefully maintained by the Guilderland School District since its
construction in 1860. Exceptionally well executed in a traditional
nineteenth-century construction technique indigenous to the
northeast but rare in this vicinity, the structure survives amidst a
contemporary suburban community. It is the best preserved
cobblestone structure in the town and is a significant historical
and architectural resource of the community. Schoolhouse #6 is now
used as a storage building by the school district*.
*in 2025 now owned by Town of Guilderland as an historic property
Schoolhouse
#6 NRHP nomination document (10MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#10 Schoolhouse
6) site map with building location from 1979 tax map
Google Earth kml
file
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